Whiffletree-hook



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J. G. HQRNER.

WHIPFLETBEE HOOK.

No. 272.255. Patented Feb 17833.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN G. HORNER, OF LEON, IOWA.

WHlFFLE TREE-HOOK.

SPEGIFIQA'JIIO1\l' forming part of Letters Patent No. 272,255, datedFebruary 13, 1883.

' Application filed May 8,1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN G. HORNER, of Leon, in the county of Decaturand State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement inWhiffletree-Hooks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription. The nature of my invention consists in the construction andarrangement of a trace-fastening, which will be hereinafter moreparticularly set forth.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the figures.

end, is fastened a hook, O, which is either passed through or secured tothe ferrule, and

points inward, as shown.

Dis the trace, to the end of which is attached the cockeye or eye-pieceF. This eye is made tapering from the outside toward the shank, as shownin Fig. 1--that is to say,.the metal is thicker at the outside at a, andthen gradusmallest portion of the eye when laid flat, but

no other part.

In hooking the trace the eye is laid fiat on the whiftletree until itssmallest part can pass under the point of the hook 0, when the eye willdrop down over the end of the whiffletree and be held in place by thehook. The trace can be quickly detached in the same manner.

This Iastening may also be applied to neckyokes or any other part of aharness.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- The eye F, made tapering both in width and thicknessfrom a to b, as described, in combination with the hook O andwhiffletree or equivalent article, substantially as and for the purposeherein set forth.

. JOHN C. HORNER. Witnesses GALON Z. Home, JOHN BELL.

